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When Governments Break the Law - The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R2,862
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When Governments Break the Law - The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration (Hardcover, New): Austin Sarat,...

When Governments Break the Law - The Rule of Law and the Prosecution of the Bush Administration (Hardcover, New)

Austin Sarat, Nasser Hussain

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Recent controversies surrounding the war on terror and American intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan have brought rule of law rhetoric to a fevered pitch. While President Obama has repeatedly emphasized his Administration's commitment to transparency and the rule of law, nowhere has this resolve been so quickly and severely tested than with the issue of the possible prosecution of Bush Administration officials. While some worry that without legal consequences there will be no effective deterrence for the repetition of future transgressions of justice committed at the highest levels of government, others echo Obama's seemingly reluctant stance on launching an investigation into allegations of criminal wrongdoing by former President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, and members of the Office of Legal Counsel. Indeed, even some of the Bush Administration's harshest critics suggest that we should avoid such confrontations, that the price of political division is too high. Measured or partisan, scholarly or journalistic, clearly the debate about accountability for the alleged crimes of the Bush Administration will continue for some time.

Using this debate as its jumping off point, When Governments Break the Law takes an interdisciplinary approach to the legal challenges posed by the criminal wrongdoing of governments. But this book is not an indictment of the Bush Administration; rather, the contributors take distinct positions for and against the proposition, offering revealing reasons and illuminating alternatives. The contributors do not ask the substantive question of whether any Bush Administration officials, in fact, violated the law, but rather the procedural, legal, political, and cultural questions of what it would mean either to pursue criminal prosecutions or to refuse to do so. By presuming that officials could be prosecuted, these essays address whether they "should."

When Governments Break the Law provides a valuable and timely commentary on what is likely to be an ongoing process of understanding the relationship between politics and the rule of law in times of crisis.

Contributors: Claire Finkelstein, Lisa Hajjar, Daniel Herwitz, Stephen Holmes, Paul Horwitz, Nasser Hussain, Austin Sarat, and Stephen I. Vladeck.

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Imprint: New York University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2010
First published: October 2010
Editors: Austin Sarat • Nasser Hussain
Dimensions: 229 x 153 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 234
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-4139-9
Categories: Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Law & society
Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Constitutional & administrative law > General
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LSN: 0-8147-4139-8
Barcode: 9780814741399

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